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Late summer and early fall is such a great time of the year! The farmers markets are just jam packed with tons of good things and some of the ones that I like the most are the perfectly ripe field tomatoes and the red peppers. One of my favorite ways to enjoy the tomatoes is to roast them and use them in various things like pasta sauces. My favorite way to enjoy red peppers is also to roast them as it bring out their amazing flavour and I tend to go through a lot of them. In fact I commonly get a bunch of both the tomatoes and the red peppers that I roast and then freeze them for the use throughout the winter.

Not to completely jump topics here but bear with me; I also really enjoy creamy gorgonzola sauces. You can see where this is going now right? I recently came across the brilliant idea of combing them all into one amazing sounding roasted tomato and red pepper sauce with blue cheese on Kayotic Kitchen and I just had to try it. Well the original recipe called for magor which is a combination of mascarpone cheese and gorgonzola but I was unable to find the magor so I just used equal parts of both the mascarpone and the gorgonzola. The first thing that always comes to mind when trying out new sauces it to use them in a simple pasta where they are the star of the show. It seems that I always have some extra zucchini on hand these days so I decided to add some to the pasta to fill it out a bit. The roasted tomato and red pepper gorgonzola sauce so good!! It was just packed full of the flavours of the roasted tomatoes and red peppers and the cheeses made the sauce so nice and creamy. The gorgonzola really worked well in the sauce adding a really nice undertone of the tangy cheese without overpowering the rest of the flavours. What a great way to enjoy the bounty of these dwindling days of summer!

I used to roast my peppers in the oven, but learned that doing them on a high heat grill seemed to work faster, provide more even charring, and kept the house from smelling like roasted peppers for two days! (http://cookingwithmichele.blogspot.com/2008/09/roasting-peppers.html)Plus my grill has a very large surface area so I can do large batches at once. It really works well!

Amazing! I have started to add roasted red peppers to my tomato sauces and I love the richness and smokiness they add. I have been dying to roast tomatoes too, to make a sauce but haven't yet. I'll bet together the roasted tomatoes and peppers are fabulous. But add gorgonzola to it? OMG must be fantastic! Wow!

Freaking love this time of year because everything is grillable or roastable. I just did something similar but went with the basic cheese and now ticked I never thought of the gorgonzola. Always forget that cheese....grr......

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.